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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Good Morrow," lines 1-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Aside.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Epistle.

2. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Iambic hexameter.
(b) Trochaic pentameter.
(c) Trochaic hexameter.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

3. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(b) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(c) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(d) Line 17, "better hemispheres."

4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Epistrophe.

5. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Pun.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Appositive.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

3. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

4. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

5. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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